scholarly journals A. M. MANDELSHTAM’S EXPEDITIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA IN 1940–1960S

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
Yu. KUTIMOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
South Siberia ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Bronze Age

The paper provides a short research biography of A. M. Mandelschtam (1920–1983), one of the leading authorities in the archaeology of Central Asia, an expert in the study of the steppe and nomadic cultures of Central Asia and South Siberia. Mandelschtam’s long and active expedition- ary activity in Tajikistan during the 1940–1950s and in Turkmenistan during the first half of the 1960s became the basis for his research and for the study of various important problems in the Bronze Age and Classical Period archaeology of Central Asia.

scholarly journals Fish depictions in the deer stones

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
J. Bayarsaikhan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
World View ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
South Siberia ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
The World ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
The Bronze Age

The autochthonous community of Central Asia, including Mongolia, is based on a nomadic culture, the origins of which go back to the paleoculture, the Bronze Age. The article is devoted to the topic of Central Asia - study drawings, petroglyphs in the Late Bronze Age. On the deer stones, petroglyphs, logograms depicting heavenly bodies (sun, moon), hunting and labor tools, wild and domestic animals, fish, as well as the so-called «pair fish» of which were found during archaeological work in Mongolia, South Siberia, Central Asia. The article notes that in the depicted figures, logos reflected the «world view» of the ancient people, their mythology and ideology, understanding of the world and nature. Some artifacts of the paleoculture discovered during archaeological excavations are still kept in the National Museum of Mongolia. Exploring the artefacts of paleoculture, the author makes his own contribution to the study of the cultural origins of Central Asia.

Scientific Analysis of Metal Objects and Metallurgical Remains from Kastri, Kythera

2007 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 219-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyprian Broodbank ◽  
Thilo Rehren ◽  
Antonia-Maria Zianni
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Information ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Late Roman

Scientific analysis of samples takes from metal objects and metallurgical products excavated during the 1960s at Kastri on Kythera provide new evidence concerning, variously, the Aegean metals trade and metallurgy on Kythera. The samples date to the Second Palace (Neopalatial), Classical and Late Roman periods. The Bronze Age material comprises fragments of copper ingots and silver cups, neither of which metal is locally available in Kythera, and the later material relates largely to local smelting and possibly smithing of iron, whose origin is uncertain. These activities are related to preliminary information concerning the distribution at each period of metallurgical activity across the island that has been generated by the intensive surface survey of the Kythera Island Project.

The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia: New Insight on Social Change from Ban Non Wat

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Higham
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Copper Base ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Bronze Age

The expansion of copper-base metallurgy in the mainland of Eurasia began in the Near East and ended in Southeast Asia. The recognition of this Southeast Asian metallurgical province followed in the wake of French colonial occupation of Cambodia and Laos in the nineteenth century. Subsequently, most research has concentrated in Thailand, beginning in the 1960s. A sound chronology is the prerequisite to identifying both the origins of the Bronze Age, and the social impact that metallurgy may have had on society. This article presents the revolutionary results of excavations at the site of Ban Non Wat in northeast Thailand within the broader cultural context of Southeast Asian prehistory, concluding that the adoption of copper-base metallurgy from the eleventh century BC coincided with the rise of wealthy social aggrandizers.

The Baigetuobie cemetery: New discovery and human genetic features of Andronovo community’s diffusion to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains (1800–1500 BC)

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 095968362097026
Author(s):  
Jiangsong Zhu ◽  
Jian Ma ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Yinqiu Cui ◽  
Marcella Festa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Eastern Tianshan ◽  
Genetic Features ◽  
Funeral Rituals ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
New Discovery

Andronovo has been regarded as one of the most powerful cultures in Central Asia, which reflected frequent cultural interflow, people migration, and technique diffusion on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppes. In the past decade, many new discoveries in Xinjiang, such as Adunqiaolu and Jartai, have drawn broad attention to the communication of the Andronovo culture in the central Tianshan Mountains. However, systematic study is still insufficient on the communication and influence of the Andronovo culture or the “Andronovo phenomenon” along the Tianshan Mountains. Based on our comprehensive investigation of tomb structure, funeral rituals and assemblages, this article reclassifies relevant Andronovo remains in Xinjiang into five categories. Two categories represented by the Xiabandi cemetery and the Adunqiaolu show clear resemblance to those at Semirech’ye in all aspects, which indicated people in these regions may have maintained close and consistent interaction. Other three categories in the Kuokesuxi and Tangbalesayi cemetery have different tomb structures and funeral rituals from those typical discoveries of the Andronovo cultures in Central Asia in spite of the their similarity in pottery and bronze ornaments, which can be considered as the result of product exchange or technical communication, rather than population migration. New discovery of the Baigetuobie cemetery with evidence of tomb structure, dating, and human genetic features in the Balikun grassland suggested that there might be a small group of people, probably came from the central Tianshan Mountains or Semirech’ye or further west, had migrated to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains about 1600 BC, which was likely facilitated by the relatively warm and humid environment. They had preserved their traditional tomb architecture and were not active in cultural interaction and population fusion with people of Hami Oasis in the south. Due to some reason unknown, people of Baigetuobie had faded away from Balikun grassland after a short time.

The Bronze Age khanates of Central Asia

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (259) ◽  
pp. 398-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Bronze Age

Origins of the Bronze Age Civilization in Central Asia

1996 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Charles C. Kolb ◽  
Fredrik Talmage Hiebert
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Bronze Age
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